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The conditions are quite different in Germany than the US, but the very high reliability of ~12 minutes outage per year on average as mentioned in the post does
by fabian2k 2y ago
The conditions are quite different in Germany than the US, but the very high reliability of ~12 minutes outage per year on average as mentioned in the post does mean that many if not most people don't think at all about power outages here. I can remember only a single real outage for me in the last ~20 years or so, and that affected only a tiny area and was very quickly fixed after it was reported.
It does mean that the average German is probably not particularly well prepared for power outages, I bought a better flashlight and a bigger power bank after the one bigger outage I experienced.
- ljf 2y agoAfter living in London where in 20 years I only experienced one power cut that lasted more than a few minutes (and it was about 2 hours, unfortunately the evening before a university paper needed submitting (printed and delivered in person the following morning as they used to be)), I now live more in the countryside. Just the other night we had a 2 hour plus powercut, and we seem to get about one a year - but I wonder if that is more down to local building work than regional issues, and it has never been due to weather.